Gopher for Firefox 3

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > In the last few days I finished an extension for Firefox 2 and 3 with
> > improved support for Gopherspace in Mozilla, including a skinnable new
> 
> Installed the plugin, haven't had a chance to test it thoroughly but
> it seems to work fine.  Very cool project, though!  My first contact
> with the Internet was in 1991 at UIUC (jht56010 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!) and
> while I was probably using IRC, FTP and telnet more frequently, I do
> remember gopher and definitely ph!  Wish I still had a copy of my ph
> record...  (Person-Name!)

There are still some CSO/ph servers out there which was why I added the
support. It's pretty trivial anyway, not sure why it wasn't in the
first place.

> Ahh, fond memories of the dorm labs with the PS/2s and Mac SE/30s
> (some of which ran the networked multiplayer Sceptre game) and the
> lovely rows of even then very outdated terminals in the basement of
> the English building.  Wish I knew what kind they were (tho I believe
> uxa.cso was a Sequent mini.  Anyone on the list there back then?)
> 
> "This is the old way; you will not see this again."

I'm still trying to find out the terminals that sat in AP&M 2337 at UCSD.
I spent more time there than the old Mac labs (which were always occupied
by people playing Bolo and, later, Marathon).

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